I don't like fashion. It's very heartless.

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

A lot of talent is a gift, but a lot is also luck. I'm very aware of that. I was born in the right place at the right time. I am also blessed because I've never been a sex symbol. I'm spared the embarrassment of acting young.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Don't want to end up a cartoon in a cartoon grave yard.

Serious numbers will speak to us always.